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May 10, 2023
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Fuzz testing or fuzzing is a commonly used technique for discovering bugs in software, and is useful in many different domains. However, the task of configuring a target to be fuzzed can be a laborious one, often involving refactoring large code bases to enable fuzz…
May 10, 2023
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Mark Otto
Next.js 13.4 Released — Despite the minor version bump, this is a big release for the popular React framework. The new app router and its improved approach to filesystem based routing is now offered as a stable feature, with a new concept of server actions…
May 9, 2023
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Mark Otto
???? That said, the fs readdir and opendir functions get a new recursive option which, a commenter notes, could replace some popular third party packages that do the same thing, such as recursive-readdir which gets over 5 million downloads a week(!) Smooth Logging for Node.js…
May 8, 2023
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Mark Otto
The AWS SDK for Java team is pleased to announce the general availability of Amazon Simple Storage Service (Amazon S3) URI parsing in the AWS SDK for Java 2.x. You can now parse path-style and virtual-hosted-style S3 URIs to easily retrieve the bucket, key, region,…
May 4, 2023
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Mark Otto
AWS CloudFormation is an Infrastructure as Code (IaC) service that allows you to model your cloud resources in template files that can be authored or generated in a variety of languages. You can manage stacks that deploy those resources via the AWS Management Console, the…
May 4, 2023
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Mark Otto
Psst.. if you’re wondering about the context of today’s subject line, see the first ⚡️ In Brief. Angular v16 Released — With the “biggest release since the initial rollout of Angular”, v16 of the extensive framework introduces a preview of a new signals-based reactivity model (a.k.a. Angular…
May 3, 2023
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Mark Otto
Many customers use Amazon CloudWatch dashboards to monitor applications and often ask how they can integrate Amazon DevOps Guru Insights in order to have a unified dashboard for monitoring. This blog post showcases integrating DevOps Guru proactive and reactive insights to a CloudWatch dashboard by…
May 3, 2023
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Mark Otto
Vercel Introduces First-Class Storage Options — Vercel is a popular platform for deploying React apps but has lacked obvious options for data storage (indeed, they have a lot of templates for common third party systems). Now, though, they’ve partnered with Upstash, Neon, and Cloudflare to…
May 2, 2023
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Mark Otto
Now Node.js Can Run on Every Major Browser Engine — The actual story is that WebContainers can now run on Safari, iOS and iPadOS much as they could on Firefox or Chrome before, meaning Node.js, too, can run directly within all of those browsers, if…
April 28, 2023
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Mark Otto
DevSecOps refers to a set of best practices that integrate security controls into the continuous integration and delivery (CI/CD) workflow. One of the first controls is Static Application Security Testing (SAST). SAST tools run on every code change and search for potential security vulnerabilities before…